This will have precisely zero effect on the open web (whatever that is). Amazing number of commenters fail to realise that: a) nothing that makes web open is re

This will have precisely zero effect on the open web (whatever that is). Amazing number of commenters fail to realise that: a) nothing that makes web open is removed. Sorry to disappoint you, but HTML will keep working as it did. b) technology not being w3c standard does not stop it from being implemented in browsers as history shows. In the end what browser vendors do matters the most, not what w3c thinks. Just look at the history of WHATWG.